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This is truly a long-awaited Southern narrative, a mirage that should have been unleashed by a Cantonese artist long ago. I need to reread it again and again to see how Lin Zhao unleashes her unbridled imagination, salvaging the watercolor afterimages of a 19th-century maritime empire from the carcasses of boats buried in the mud of the Pearl River.
——Liang Wendao’s illusions contain a naturally full body, and the dialect contains the rich spirit of the nation. With meticulous fictional skills, Lin Zhao depicts the unique style of a special time and space.
Huang Dehai's most important novel of 2021. The characters' wanderings and interactions are, in fact, a history of the cultural, economic, and political interactions between China and the West since modern times. Neither China nor the West is central to this narrative, a point of particular confidence for the authors of the 1980s and 1990s.
In the 1820s, Scottish naturalist H, whose origins are shrouded in mystery, traveled the world, landing in Guangzhou. He encountered a giant female frog in a local reed forest, successfully trapped it, and raised it in Macau's Goodview Garden. From then on, the frog's life was filled with a mixture of joy and sorrow, a strange caged animal, new knowledge of the world, and the lives of all creatures. On the eve of the Opium War, H went bankrupt and committed suicide. Goodview Garden vanished like a dream, and the frog would soon face the test of life and death.
This magical story, rooted in the customs of Lingnan, journeys from the Pearl River's floating dwellings to Guangzhou's Thirteen Factories, with a brief stop at Macau's Treasure Garden, before exploring the animistic worlds of rivers and oceans. Here, East meets West, and utopias large and small collide, offering a captivating journey through the modern world.

2022-01-01

上海文艺出版社

292

9787532180141